SMME Support as of July 2020 SMME Support as of July 2020 What the Renewable Energy (IPP) Projects have contributed to the Small Medium Micro Enterprises in South Africa SuperUser Account / Wednesday, October 21, 2020 0 5690 Article rating: 4.0 The purpose of this presentation is to provide the information on what the Renewable Energy (IPP) Projects have contributed to the Small Medium Micro Enterprises in South Africa. Read more
AFRICOAST ENERGY LAUNCHED AFRICOAST ENERGY LAUNCHED SuperUser Account / Monday, April 13, 2015 0 59993 Article rating: 3.5 FOLLOWING significant growth in the renewable energy business, AfriCoast Engineers SA has developed a sister company to exapnd its vision. Read more
AFRICOAST ENGINEERS SA ESTABLISHES RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANY AFRICOAST ENGINEERS SA ESTABLISHES RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANY SuperUser Account / Thursday, February 12, 2015 0 56805 Article rating: 4.0 Renewable energy engineering firm AfiCoast Engineers SA has announced that a new company, AfriCoast Energy, will now be responsible for all future renewable energy projects - particulary wind and solar - while it will also play a key role in guiding AfriCoast Engineers' current basket of renewable energy projects. Read more
Scatec starts commercial operation at Grootfontein solar power plant SuperUser Account / Monday, December 8, 2025 0 0 Article rating: No rating Renewable-energy provider Scatec ASA has started commercial operation of the 273 MW Grootfontein solar power plant in South Africa, which will generate predictable revenues from a 20-year power purchase agreement. “We are proud to commence commercial operations at Grootfontein, reinforcing our strong record in South Africa. Read more
Encouraging signs in South Africa’s economy, but more to be done – BLSA SuperUser Account / Monday, December 8, 2025 0 1 Article rating: No rating Last week’s GDP figures for the third quarter confirmed that the country is seeing green shoots emerging in the economy, business organisation Business Leadership South Africa CEO Busi Mavuso highlights in her latest newsletter. “The 2.1% year-on-year growth surprised economists and has triggered many to revise upward their forecasts for the full year from the previous consensus of around 1.2%. We should now beat that by a reasonable margin. Of course, this is still far below the meaningful growth we need to turn around unemployment, but it is a clear step in the right direction,” she explains. Read more
Unilever South Africa lifts local content to 80% as it moves to embed supply-chain resilience SuperUser Account / Monday, December 8, 2025 0 1 Article rating: No rating The producer of a diverse range of well-known household brands – from Sunlight soap and OMO washing powder, to Vaseline and Robertsons Spices – reports that it has increased the local content in the products it manufactures in South Africa to 80% from a level of only 40% in 2019. The brands are all produced by Unilever South Africa, which manufactures 95% of the products it sells locally. Read more
Aviation and tourist sector entities urge State to adopt digital border control technologies SuperUser Account / Monday, December 8, 2025 0 2 Article rating: No rating International air transport sector-owned technology company SITA and global private sector travel and tourism industry non-profit promotion entity, the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), have issued a joint report on how countries could use the latest technologies and forward-looking digital visa policies to provide seamless travel while maintaining security. The report was entitled 'Better Borders: Enhance Security, Boost Tourism, Facilitate Seamless Travel & Drive Economic Growth'. Using current systems, the report points out that, by 2035, aviation is forecast to transport 14-billion passengers a year. The WTTC predicts that, by that time, travel and tourism will account for 11.5% of the global economy ($16.5-trillion, in money terms), and support 12.5% of the global workforce (or 462-million jobs). Read more
New study into DNA of ancient Southern Africans changes perspectives on their origins SuperUser Account / Monday, December 8, 2025 0 2 Article rating: No rating One of the biggest studies yet conducted of the DNA of ancient Southern African hunter-gatherer people has upended previous theories about the origin of the Khoe and San peoples. Conducted by population geneticists from Uppsala University in Sweden, and a cognitive archaeologist from the University of Johannesburg, the study involved the analysis of the DNA of 28 people who lived in Southern Africa from 1 200 years to only a few hundred years ago. “[T]hese genomes provide an unadmixed view of early Southern African population history,” pointed out study co-author Carina Schlebush. “With increasing numbers of high-coverage ancient genomes, we are now approaching true population-level insights. This gives us a much clearer foundation for understanding how modern humans evolved across Africa.” Read more